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Tough luck guys I have had the infamous windows updates before, but nothing that relies on the one machine so I can’t imagine how infuriating that would be. Hopefully the gremlins will be on the best behaviour after this.

windows 10 is fine, its crappy drivers which cause the issues, secret to avoid snafu’s like that is to set updates to deffered, stops the major feature enhancement updates happening until youwant it, but you still get the standard security updates as they are deployed

And this is why I always change windows update’s default to let me to decide when to install updates. You can still configure this in windows 10 if you use the classic control panel (right-click on the windows logo in the bottom left for quick access).

not it still downloads updates perhaps not as many but still updates usually when your busy. @limburger you can stop updates but only with win10 professional (?I have been told) it has the old update options as well but.

Sodding typical, just when your about to do something……………….”Windows” think`s………let`s put a spanner in the works.

If anything, windows should ask you first and give you the choice of delaying the up date for a few hour`s. So you can have a chance to finish what your working, come on windows get yourselves organised.

Mostly it’s just MS keeping you safe from all the bugs that they left in Windows 10. Don’t forget that Apple put out about the same number of updates – they generally just wait for you to update, leaving you open to bug exploitation longer. Neither way is brilliant, so go with the advice from @monkeysloth if you run time sensitive issues.

Windows 10 Professional Edition: Defer upgrades While Home users are stuck with having to work around automatic updates, Professional users have a built-in option that allows them to defer updates for several months. The best part of this option is that security patches are still applied, it’s just system updates that are held back.

AAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! How DARE Microsoft deny us our weekend dose of the weekender???? BRING ME THE HEAD OF BILL GATES ON A MDF TRAY!!!!! Seriously, hate when this happens, hope all the issues are worked out and things return to normal.

At least you didn’t get a bad update. I had an update that was corrupted or something and wouldn’t let the computer boot back up. I had to revert to an earlier version. That took about two hours counting the initial bad download and was fixed until windows 10 decided to force the same corrupted update on the computer. I was kept in this cycle until Microsoft fixed their un wanted update.